Speaking of PR flackery, I am grateful to Doug Enaa Greene for this review of Unhitched:

So
what are we to make of Hitchens? Seymour offers this as a closing argument:

He found, as he might
have suspected, that being on the right side of history in this sense was to
gain more influence and pecuniary advantage than ever before. He succumbed to
almost every craven, supine, and bigoted impulse he possessed and, while
despatching the false gods of other believers, adopted a devotional attitude
towards his adopted land. He became “a living and ignominious satire on himself” (p. 110).

Having
sat through the prosecution’s case, one can merely mutter of Christopher
Hitchens, “the guilty bastard”.